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First ride of the year
I got the bike out for the first time this year. It's a coldish, blustery but sunny day in Toronto and the ride out to the end of the Leslie Street spit was a bit of a sog into a stiffish breeze. Pleasant coming back though! No complaints about the rugby or football results either.
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Canadian Art Song Project
Today's recital at the Four Seasons Centre involved modern Canadian art songs by Glick, Passmore and Harman; the last work being a world premiere. More...
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Eugene Onegin at the Met
The Blu-ray/DVD release of the Robert Carsen production of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin is one of the best to have come out of the Live in HD broadcasts. More...
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Metropolitan Opera Live in HD 2012/13
The Metropolitan Opera has announced the schedule for the live HD cinema broadcasts for the 2012/13 season. Read my entirely objective and unbiased guide to what to see and what not to bother with. It also gives dates, times, casts, conductors etc so may actually be useful.
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Continuing the Saariaho theme
I put off watching the DVD of Saariaho's L'Amour de Loin until the end of the run at COC. Now I've seen it. It's of the original Peter Sellars production recorded in Helsinki with the original cast. More...
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Police privatisation
According to the Guardian policing in England is to be privatised. I thought the police had already been bought by News International.
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Audit conventions
Say you were the corporate auditors for a large publicly quoted corporation, say News International. And say, hypothetically, you found that one of its subsidiaries was making large unreceipted cash payments to undisclosed recipients wouldn't you, as a matter of course, report that to corporate financial management?
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The descent of Don José
Francesca Zambello's 2006 production of Carmen at Covent Garden is superficially quite conventional but a deeper reading suggests a very nuanced approach to the moral decline of Don José that lifts this out of the sexy woman and nice tunes category. More...
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And another Fledermaus
The Mörbisch production of Die Fledermaus which I reviewed earlier had enough weirdness not to be the "reference" performance I was looking for. I expected that an Otto Schenk production would be suitably unimaginative. I was right. More...
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Die Fledermaus auf Mörbisch
This production of Die Fledermaus starts out very conventionally, drifts into Max Mosely territory and exits via Benny Hill. More...
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